- Title: Two dead as Nepal police use tear gas, sticks to break up pro-monarchy rally
- Date: 28th March 2025
- Summary: KATHMANDU, NEPAL (MARCH 28, 2025) (REUTERS) PRO-MONARCHY PROTESTORS MARCHING, WAVING FLAGS PROTESTORS MARCHING PAST POLICE PROTESTORS STANDING HEAD TO HEAD WITH POLICE, CHANTING PROTESTORS RUNNING DOWN STREET, WAVING FLAGS PROTESTORS THROWING STONES, SMOKE RISING SOUNDBITE (NEPALI) PRO-MONARCHY PROTESTOR, NO NAME GIVEN, SAYING: “The existence of this country is now fading,
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- Keywords: Nepal monarchy police protestors
- Location: KATHMANDU, NEPAL
- City: KATHMANDU, NEPAL
- Country: Nepal
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
- Reuters ID: LVA001247528032025RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Nepali riot police lobbed tear gas, fired water cannon and used rattan sticks on Friday (March 28) to break up a protest rally demanding the restoration of constitutional monarchy, and at least two people were killed in the violence, police said.
Authorities said they had to use force to stop thousands of protesters breaking into an area where demonstrations and protest rallies are banned, and they later imposed a curfew in the affected area to stem further escalation of the violence.
The two people killed included one of the protesters and a journalist who was covering the rally, a police spokesman, Dinesh Kumar Acharya, told Reuters. Avenues TV said one of its journalists had died when a house he was in was set ablaze.
Another Nepal police spokesman, Shekhar Khanal, said protesters had set fire to a private house and a vehicle, adding that 17 people including three police personnel were injured. Three protesters are in police custody, he said.
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